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The same was said by elders when DND and comic books came about. The same was said about the internet itself. About secularism and relinquishing maintenance of past spoken traditions of all flavors.
For an increasingly secular society to say “hey wait I meant we bin religion but not my profiteering!” is the height of hypocrisy.
The only past traditions of value are disabusing people their meatbag is more sacrosanct than another, and fighting like hell to improve equality of condition for all meatbags even if that costs some their figurative value whether measured in conviction to scripture or fiat currency.
That’s my two cents anyway. Relativity means reality is relative, and thus so too are individual motives given an individuals time spent close to specific information.
That alone is a testament to how the country has changed. How many McDonalds burger flippers have that social network now?
His childhood and his family greatly benefited from pre-Reagan social programs.
How sad if the mega-mega-billionaires were mega-mega-millionaires. The rich of their childhood got through high taxes ok.
If such taxation is immoral, let’s discuss then the advantages immoral taxation in the past provided them and accept them as less uniquely gifted and successful on their own then.
They don’t want thinkers who re-invent the wheel?
A UBI is going to normalize condition and make “them” see there’s even more to participate in.
Sounds like you still prefer maintenance of a steerage class, assuming you’ll be a bit higher on the totem pole. But I mean, real talk is you’re still just one of billions. How you feel the world as-is is a meaningless measure for how you would fit into a UBI world. And I have no particular obligation to your sensibilities. shrug emoji You’re a “them” to me is not an unreasonable statement.
He’s not a genius just well networked.
Idle idolatry of normal human beings with no effort to verify their real outputs creates an unfalsifiable truth Bezos is a lynchpin to reality.
Ooo oo I heard it through the grapevine, Bezos is not what you might call “divine”…
The rich did not invent science, engineering, and economic activity. Human behavior gives rise to those things organically. The rich are merely playing information awareness constraint games; a man named Farmer is a farmer, an engineer is an engineer, and there’s no reason to allow them agency to learn other things.
His value is rooted in traditions of political correctness to buy into that narrative, not immutable laws of nature.
Bezos has given interviews about his habits. He works maybe 10-20 hours a week.
Billing 40 hours every week to run scripts that generate a Github repo structure in minutes has been profitable for me though. Not going to knock Musk and Bezos optimizing for themselves by gaming others agency.
Everyone is building Mechanical Turks to nudge users to add artistic nuance AI lacks so far.
Personally I prefer using the libraries directly rather than gift my work to startups I’m also paying subscription fees to.
Startups are basically double dipping; let us train based on your behavior! …for $9.99/mo per user. Oh and we own the outcome!
Hoping to get some useful open models and data sets for game world generation soon!
Still functioning gadgets with WiFi will be all over and can make a local mesh network. Dams, wind turbines, utility lines, will remain.
It’s not aliens with doomsday weapons hitting all human occupied places from space.
That said it’s really what survivors do about that. Not hard to see many in shock ending themselves given the lack of hands on survival skills, and connection to the manual labor that keeps us alive, like farming.
Whataboutism is minimizing bad thing by highlighting other bad thing. “Look bad thing parity!”
Shooting someone because your friend shot someone else does not make what you did ok.
A constructive approach would be to build schools, hospitals, and other local social solutions to community vision rather than allowing outside agents to gambling for themselves with the outputs of our agency.
We flip out over the potential for waste in too many hospitals while binning laptops and phones every couple years to save Apple.
There will be literal waste to any human endeavor. What character do we want it to have? Empowering a party drug addicted rocket man filling us full of high minded bullshit about a future no one can predict or helping people exist how humans tend to exist; building communal ties that don’t expropriate wealth and agency for some distant power hording edgelord.
Why should the US government decide which apps free people download? Free people ostensibly have no obligation to government security concerns.
Assange, Snowden, Swartz. Migrant children in cages.
Along with the list in my original post, and recent history I was alive for that includes numerous other examples; US citizens and its politicians are bullies who ignore their own bullying.
Not saying “China good.” I’m saying “US bad.”
Why is the US government as-is a rational actor to get behind? More of its citizens in prison than China, it’s citizens vote against supporting each other through universal healthcare, and education, it’s opioid peddling execs, scandal plagued business leadership makes Mad Men look like Leave it to Beaver. China did not set the US on this path. It’s all homegrown.
Let such exceptional and gritty people be. Get some popcorn. Front row seats to the end of society are waiting.
I get half up front, half on delivery.
Trying to juggle a set of rules for when to run the clock is a distraction.